3. III. 1921

Comrade Sklyanski!

Comrade Kondratii Emelyanov, a Red Army soldier (address: 16th Army, 1st Separate Sapper Company, 5th Rifle Division), has asked me to request that he be recalled from his unit and allowed to enter the Military Engineering Academy in Petrograd (Sadovaya, 4).

He completed the Military Engineering Technical School on 22. III. 1920 and upon graduation was assigned to the Western Front.

He would now like, given that there is a lull on the fronts, to continue his education.

I personally know Comrade Kondratii Emelyanov and the entire Emelyanov family (among the best of the Petersburg working-class Bolsheviks of the "old guard"), and therefore I ask you (if you have no particular objections) to fulfill Comrade Kondratii Emelyanov's request and issue the appropriate order.

Please do not refuse to drop me a line or two in reply 138.

With communist greetings,
Lenin

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript